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Now That He's Screwed Us For the 58th Time...

Welcome to Hope n' Change 2.0!

In the face of a collapsing economy, rampant unemployment, and global instability, Barack Hussein Obama took office in 2008 promising Hope and Change. The "Hope" thing didn't really work out, but we got plenty of "Change" as everything got worse. And now, the jug-eared jackass has a second term.

That's why at Hope n' Change Cartoons, we're creating conservative smartaleckry to provide a little laughter in these strange times. Cartoons will probably be posted Monday and Wednesday, and definitely on Friday. Additionally, cartoons and graphics will be posted randomly on our Facebook page and Friday we'll add the week's postings right here to kick around in one of the greatest comments sections on the Web.Note: please feel free to repost our cartoons on your favorite blogs!

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

It's rare that "earthshaking news" out of Washington is anything of the kind... but yesterday it actually happened when our nation's capitol was rocked by a 5.9 earthquake.

Despite the fact that virtually every government office in Washington was immediately evacuated, and airports and nuclear power stations shut down, Barack "No Drama" Obama showed remarkable courage by taking a briefing by phone while on the golf course and looking completely disinterested, except for chuckling a couple of times.

Still, his well-concealed concern for the security of our institutions and the lives of the innocent were clearly revealed when he blew his next putt.Meanwhile, unfounded rumors that Washington had been destroyed entirely rocked Wall Street, causing the Dow Jones to skyrocket more than 322 points.

In honor of our current president, Hope n' Change believes that the geologic anomaly which produced the earthquake should be given a name which is not only accurate, but has been woefully underused by the mainstream media.

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Uh-huh, I see...no way I can use this to boost my numbers? Ha ha ha, that's funny, fly back to DC? As if...! I'm only on the 9th hole, just have the National Guard fly in some peas and don't call me again unless I can get some bump in the damned polls, got it? (click) Sheesh, Plouffe is really losing his touch.

In pre-Mao China, emperors/dynasty's ruled by what in English is translated as 'The Mandate of Heaven'. However, when a series of natural disasters struck, (famine, drought, earthquakes, Mongol Horde, etc., etc.,) it was considered then that the emperor/dynasty has fallen out of favor and its Mandate of Heaven had been revoked, thus......... Flash forward to now, and with who we have occupying (unfortunately) the WH now, and ......... Just sayin'

@Andrew- Hey, you snooze you lose. (grin) And a very centralized volcano might just be the economic stimulus we've been waiting for! Taking a cue from our allegedly Hawaiian president, I'll start making offerings of rice and spam to Madame Pele and ask for her help.

It's not that Oblamer was concerned about the earthquake that caused him to miss his putt....it was that he was disappointed that such a clearly Tea Party attack on the USA didn't do more damage. If it had done more damage he would have gotten 2 things out of it....another setback in the economy he is attempting to destroy and something else to blame the slow economy on.

@The OldMan: holy mackerel! You can summon an earthquake when you need one!? Wait a moment while I get down to grovel at your feet!

Now, then! @The OldMan, can you aim a hurricane where you want it to go, because if you CAN, and if we can lure all the politicians back to DC, we're in business for some REAL reform and economic stimulus! Can you turn the thing into a Cat 5!?

I read that several Californicators were making fun of the way easterners behaved during the mild quake. Yet dust an eighth of an inch of snow on CA and watch the natives go crazy driving their cars into ditches and onto their neighbor's lawns.Unfamiliarity with certain phenomena is a bitch, isn't it?

@Stilt @AHD - HARF! Spew! So Tru Dat!!!!BITD (80's) When I was living in College Station (yes, I'm an Aggie, and will admit it) the entire town(s) (included 'twin' of Bryan, TX) were pretty much shut down one fine winter day. Not from snow, or ice, but just plain cold... it got down to 20, and the gas pipes were not big enough to supply all the biz AND all the houses w/ enough gas - so they told the biz to go in, set 'stats to 50, fig'd that would leave enough gas in pipes to keep houses at (shiver!) 70. Seemed to work. But GEEZE, we go MONTHS here, some years, w/o warming UP to 20, and I tend to keep winter 'stat at 62 and wear a sweater... But hey, I'm cheap like that... Long way of saying, yeah, the Devil you Know.. (Eff E-quakes, wild fires, mudslides of so-cal; volcanoes of HI, Hurricanes everywhere - I'll take a bit of cold / snow, and the occasional tornado - you can hide from tornadoes..)

Anonymous:I lived in Long Beach for four years. Used to ski cross country to school almost every day.Seriously, most of us know that it snows in some parts of California - we've seen the commercials. But that's not the image that generally comes to mind. I think the point was that unusual natural events catch people off guard and they will not react the same as those for whom these events are a regular occurrence.Everyone is open to ridicule sometime.

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